Is anyone using Octave on Lonestar?

2013-02-06T18:43:40Z

Is anyone successfully using Octave on Lonestar? I am trying to use it (the version already installed on the system. I heard that someone compile there own binary). I met with the following issues:

1) I can load the octave module (with other required modules such as mkl, etc.) on the login node, and run octave directly under login node.

2) However, when I submit a jobscript in which octave is called with an absolute path to the queue, the job will fail with the following message:

Lmod Warning: Did not find: octave/3.6.1

/opt/apps/octave/3.6.1/bin/octave: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

3) If I use idev and launch an interactive job, and working on an node I am assigned, I found out the following:
a) "module spider octave/3.6.1" returns correct octave module information.
b) "module load octave/3.6.1" fails with "Lmod Warning: Did not find: octave/3.6.1"
c) Other modules such as mkl can be successfully loaded in the interactive job

4) If I load all the modules (including octave) under login node, and launch the idev job with -V option, then under the working node I am assigned
a) "module list" indeed shows all the modules loaded under the login node before launching the interactive job, including octave
b) However, "which octave" returns a message that "octave not found in ....(my PATH)", although /usr/appl/octave/3.6.1/bin/ is indeed in the path.
c) If "ls /usr/appl/octave/3.6.1", it shows an empty directory!

So what is going on? Anyone meet with the same issue or have any suggestions?

About available resources

2011-09-16T21:38:08Z

I am new to XSEDE and am applying for a startup allocation. In the application form we are asked to pick up the resources we would like to use. This is something that brings me confusion. For example,

1) From some posts here, I learned that Ember of NCSA is no longer available for XSEDE, and indeed in Resource Monitor of XSEDE Portal, we do not see Ember. But it is still listed in the application form.

2) Lincoln, another cluster from NCSA, is not listed in the application form, but seems available to XSEDE users. The status of Lincoln is shown in Resource Monitor.

3) NCSA Forge is listed as "Coming Soon" on NCSA's own webpage, but is listed as available in the application form, while not listed in the Resource Monitor.

How should I make my decision when facing these discrepancies? More general, Will I be granted only the resources that I choose in my application, or later I still have chances to ask for other resources? What about the resource not listed in the application form (e.g. Lincoln)?

Thanks!